Marco Donat-Cattin

Marco Donat-Cattin (28 September 1953-19 June 1988) was the founder of the Prima Linea communist organization during the "Years of Lead" in Italy.

Biography
Marco Donat-Cattin was born in Turin, Piedmont, Italy in 1953, the son of Christian Democracy politician Carlo Donat-Cattin. He had a son at 17 and separated from the mother, and he later found a job as a librarian. In 1976, he participated in the establishment of Prima Linea, becoming a member of its national council. He escaped to France before the government could arrest him, but he was extradited in 1981, and was placed under house arrest from 1985 to 1987. He was struck and killed by a car on a highway near Verona in 1988.